A new mode of inner volcano growth: The "flower intrusive structure"

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 202-208

  Tibaldi, Alessandro ^a   Pasquarè, Federico A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Esja; Iceland; laccolith; sheet; sill; structural model

Indexed keywords

ELSEVIER (CO); GENERAL (CO); HYALOCLASTITES; ICELAND; LAVA FLOWS; MULTIPLE PULSES; VOLCANIC AREAS; VOLCANIC STRUCTURES; YOUNG'S MODULUS (IGC: E14/K14);

DEFORMATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; LANDFORMS;

VOLCANOES;

DIKE SWARM; LACCOLITH; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA CHAMBER; MODELING; SILL;

ESJA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 45049084066     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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